University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Top Questions

I wish I had know how great this experience was going to be, so that I wouldn't have spent so much time worrying about it before I came!

I wish I had known that college is nothing like highschool. This meaning that a well balanced and organized schedule is necessary and that keeping up day by day on assignments and readings truly makes a large difference in ones grades. I also wish I had known that in getting one day behind in any class it is very difficult to get back on track and maintain that.

I wish I knew how difficult it is to get to know and talk to professors one on one and also how difficult it is to get good advising help regarding class selection and progress toward my major.

I wish I had known that my Design materials (for studio, I'm an Industrial Design major) are way overpriced on campus and to buy them all at home.

I wish I would have know what my major would be.

Just the sheer magnituge of the student body. I knew it was going to be big but just how big didn't hit me until I came down to campus my freshman year.

The real college atmosphere

More bureacracy than I thought

I wish I had known more about what kind of coursework would be most applicable to my areas of interest and what kinds of careers stem from different majors but I also wish I had known more about what fraternity life would be like and if it was something for me.

I wish I had known about the tornadoes.